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Fewer commuters in Forest Lawn drive than in Alberta’s towns or across Canadian towns: 77%

Workers spend 27 min getting to work, on average.

Health in Forest Lawn beats 95% of Canadian towns

7.9% of adults smoke, daily or now and then, below Alberta’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%) alike; by contrast, the survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. Add to that, across the region, life runs to 83.0 years on average: women 85.0, men 80.9, in 2022/2024. For Forest Lawn itself the measure is access: 4.3 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km.

Renting in Forest Lawn eats 38% of household income, more than in both Alberta’s towns and Canadian towns

Measured across the Calgary metro area: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom

Shelter took 30% or more of income for 34% of households, above both Alberta’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%).

In the lower two fifths in Alberta: 29 of the 35 schools around Forest Lawn with results

Boards running schools in the area: 4, higher than both Alberta’s towns (3) and Canadian towns (3). Forest Lawn High School is the biggest, at 1,480 students. Counting a 3 km margin, Forest Lawn has 30 elementary schools, 8 secondary schools and 8 schools for every grade, for 18,108 students.

Hazards in Forest Lawn: wildfire low, radon over the guideline in 8.1% of tested homes

Radon tests for the Calgary Health Region · The earthquake risk numbers here cover the city of Calgary

For earthquakes Forest Lawn is middling, $0.023 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. Flood mapping: none on the national inventory of the town.

Precipitation in Forest Lawn trails that of 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm a year

The most precipitation falls in June: 113 mm in a normal year. Frost comes on 193 days a year, near Alberta’s towns (193) and higher than Canadian towns (159). Midsummer afternoons in Forest Lawn peak at about 23.5°C. The frost-free season runs from 21 May to 18 September, 119 days.

More of Forest Lawn’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Alberta’s towns or Canadian towns: 11%

Visible minorities make up two fifths of the population, above Alberta’s towns (29%) and Canadian towns (15%) alike. Just over one in ten residents have reached 65. The under-15s are 18% of the population here.

Expect November days around 4°C in Forest Lawn, nights around −8°C

November usually brings some 19 cm of snow. Next comes December, with normal highs of freezing and lows of −12°C. Precipitation in November averages 16 mm. July brings the warmest days, 24°C; January the coldest nights, −14°C.

Jasraj Hallan (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Forest Lawn in Ottawa as MP for Calgary East

33 of the 37 MPs from Alberta belong to the Conservative Party of Canada.

Each person Calgary Public Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries

Forest Lawn is served by Calgary Public Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people.

Forest Lawn gets a B− for safety

Shared with the rest of the Calgary service area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

The index for the force that serves it came to 67, lower than Alberta’s towns (110) and near Canadian towns (67). Violence across its police area runs at 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year. For every 1,000 residents of its police area, 31.9 property crimes are reported each year.

Forest Lawn is 10 km from Fish Creek Provincial Park

Trout Beach is the one beach within 5 km. The largest named area nearby is Inglewood Migratory Bird Sanctuary, 111 ha, 1.1 km away. Close by: one protected area. The closest of Canada’s national parks is Banff National Park, at 86 km.